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• PartyGaming Buys EmpirePoker
• PokerRoom Wins UK Poker Site of the Year
• The First LIPS Poker Conference for 2006
• World Series of Poker Has New Torunament Director
• Celebrities and Pros Ante Up for the WPT Invitational
• WPT Announces Season 5 Schedule
• 2006 Borgata Winter Poker Open Debuts with Full House
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The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the biggest and baddest poker tournament in the world. Born out of a high-stake dare in the summer of 1949 between Nicholas �Nick the Greek� Dandolos and Johnny Moss. Many Online poker sites today offer guaranteed seats to the WSOP events. Play poker online now and get the chance to play at the WSOP!

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Monday, February 20, 2006

Full-Tilt's $1 Million WSOP Seat Giveaway

With an estimated $75 Million prize pool, the 2006 WSOP is the richest sporting event in the world, and Full Tilt Poker is offering three, groundbreaking ways to win.

Full Tilt Poker kicks off their 2006 WSOP promotions starting with the $1 Million WSOP Main Event Seat Giveaway. Starting in March, Full Tilt Poker will hold a 20 seat freeroll every month, for five months totaling an astounding 100, $10,000 completely free seats to the WSOP Main Event.

Then, Full Tilt Poker is announcing their WSOP Main Event 100 Seat Guarantee. With a minimum prize pool of $1.2 Million (100 WSOP prize packages that include a $10,000 seat and $2,000 in spending money,) this is the largest, single WSOP seat guarantee anywhere.

The added overlay to these two remarkable promotions is the return of the $10M Main Event Mania. Returning for a second year, Full Tilt Poker will once again award any player that wins their seat through fulltiltpoker.com and goes on to win the Main Event an additional $10M on top of their first place winnings.

The 2003 and 2004 WSOP Main Event winners won their seats through online poker rooms, and Full Tilt Poker is offering the richest overlay in poker! Through its tremendous variety of WSOP promotions, FullTiltPoker.com estimates that it will represent as much as 10% of the field in the WSOP Main Event. That would mean there is a one in 10 chance of someone cashing in on an additional $10M.

Team Full Tilt is a select group of the world's finest professional poker players, including Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Jennifer Harman, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Phil Gordon, Clonie Gowen, John Juanda, and Mike Matusow.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

PartyGaming Buys EmpirePoker

Before the dispute that ha sdragged the two company the last few months, Party Poker and Empire were considered 'sister sites' by players, as it was commonly known among players that they were actually playing on Party's skin.

In October, Party made a decision to cut off its 'skins' from the Party player pool, effectively leaving Party as a standalone entity, and leaving the skins without the bulk of the player base they had become accustomed to.

This move led to initial discussions about Party acquiring Empire, but negotiations stalled, and eventually Empire chose to begin legal proceedings. This move today ends those legal proceedings, and allows Party to move forward free of any entanglements from its former 'skins'.

"This acquisition brings our skins strategy to a close and consolidates our leading position in online poker ahead of the launch of the fully-integrated, Party-branded platform. The introduction of Blackjack last October marked the beginning of our cross-selling strategy; the integrated platform will enable PartyGaming to take the cross-selling of games to a new level." Commented Richard Segal, Chief Executive of PartyGaming.

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Sunday, February 12, 2006

PokerRoom Wins UK Poker Site of the Year

The award was presented on January 25, 2006. This makes two very prestigious awards in a short time for PokerRoom. With a Gold for Top Poker Software and an honorable mention for Top Poker Site at the Gambling Online Magazine Awards, as well as this new award for Poker Site of the Year.

Meanwhile, PokerRoom has prepared tournaments in time for the Winter Olympics. For five straight days on February 19-23, rings gamers will be able to combine luck in five different poker forms for the Winter Ring Games.

Players have the chance to win $3,000 prize pool daily. To become one of the contestants, you need to make a first deposit. During the games we are offering a 20% First Deposit Bonus up to $100.

For more details, visit PokerRoom now and start playing in the Winter Ring Games.

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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

The First LIPS Poker Conference for 2006

Here is your opportunity to rub elbows with Pokers Top Professionals, authors and players including Linda Johnson, Jan Fisher, Mark Seif, Kathy Liebert, Roy Cooke and many more at this groundbreaking event. With their knowledge, experience and personal influence in poker, this conference is guaranteed to be rewarding and fun.

Open to both men and women, conference participants can look forward to a distinctive approach at the conference. Attendees will be brought together in small groups at poker tables with one speaker per table for personalized “face to face” instruction. Topics for the conference will cover Poker strategy for beginners to advanced level, tells and reading players, No-Limit Holdem, 7-Card Stud, and Omaha strategy, and positional play. A question and answer session included.

The cost of the conference is $425.00 (prior to March 31) or $525 at the door. Registration must be received before March 31st. The fee includes three nights hotel accommodation at Binion's (Wed, Thurs & Fri), conference materials, continental breakfast and buffet lunch both days of conference, and a cocktail party hosted by slysharkeyspoker.com.

For more information and to register for the LIPS Poker Conference, visit lipspokerconference.com.

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Sunday, February 05, 2006

World Series of Poker Has New Torunament Director

Harrah's Entertainment has named Robert Daily, the poker room manager at the Rio All- Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, as the Tournament Director for the 2006 WSOP, which is scheduled to take place on June 25-August 10 at the Amazon Room of the Rio Pavilion Convention Center.

The 62-year-old Daily will be the third Tournament Director for the WSOP in three years.

"We (at Harrah's Entertainment) have learned a lot from the past two years and we intend to make the 2006 World Series of Poker the best ever for our guests," said Daily. "Many of the issues brought up by the players last year, including restroom access and smoking, have been addressed."

Prior to his 30-year career in the casino gaming industry, Daily was a contract pilot for "Air America", the airline owned and operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), during the Vietnam War.

Harrah's also named Caesars Palace Las Vegas poker room manager Michael Matts as an assistant tournament director for the 2006 WSOP.

Daily and Matts replaced 2005 WSOP Tournament Director Johnny Grooms and 2005 WSOP Assistant Tournament Director Jack Effel, both of whom have resigned from their positions as WSOP Circuit Tournament Director and Assistant Tournament Director respectively, after they directed the WSOP Circuit event at the Grand Casino in Tunica, Mississippi in January.

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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Celebrities and Pros Ante Up for the WPT Invitational

The event at Commerce Casino, televised annually on the Travel Channel, draws more than 75 celebrities, competing against 200 of the leading players in the game -- including many of the poker millionaires created by the World Poker Tour's $150-million in prize pools over the past four years.

This is where you'll see T.J. Cloutier, Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Gus Hansen, Jennifer Harman, Daniel Negreanu, Erick Lindgren and Phil "The Unabomber" Laak go head-to-head with the biggest names in television and film for a piece of a $200,000 prize pool and a $25,000 seat in the WPT World Championship at Bellagio in April. The last celebrity to exit the tourney will also earn $10,000 for his or her favorite charity.

This year's WPT Invitational is slated for Feb. 22-23, with the Final Table on Feb. 24. Last year, stage and screen actor Tom Everett Scott became the first celebrity to make the final six, finishing third in the event and pocketing $25,000. The winner was Costa Rican poker star Alex Brenes. In 2003, Laak, "The Unabomber," took home the title after an animated performance that included pushups and shadow boxing with his tablemates.

"The WORLD POKER TOUR is all about letting people live their dreams and celebrities are no different. They all want to be the one counting the money at the Final Table," said Steve Lipscomb, CEO and Founder of WPT Enterprises, Inc.

Fans may view the Final Table on Feb. 24, with seating available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The tournament will begin at 5 p.m. but it is suggested that that fans arrive by 3 p.m. to ensure a spot. The Commerce Casino, the country's largest poker room, is located at 6131 East Telegraph Road in Commerce, just five minutes from downtown Los Angeles off the Washington exit of the 5 Freeway.

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